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Order and oddities

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Water is a common but unusual liquid. Precise measures of the arrangement of molecules in water may help us to better understand some of its peculiar properties.

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Figure 1: Molecular structure in liquids.

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Figure 2: A possible link between structural order and anomalous behaviour in liquid water.

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Sastry, S. Order and oddities. Nature 409, 300–301 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35053267

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